Tony Elumelu at World Economic Forum in Davos

Davos 2019: Africa boosts free trade while global barriers go up

A new African free trade area could be just weeks away as the last few countries ratify an agreement signed last year. The plan to boost intra-African trade by half is gaining much attention in Davos this year. When you ask Tony Elumelu if Africa would profit from free trade, the Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist […]

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Oscar Onyema, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Lagos

DAVOS: NSE CEO urges African businesses to pull higher governance standards

The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Oscar Onyema has called on African businesses to embrace higher governance standards to facilitate the inflow of funds needed to position the continent to leverage gains of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Onyema made the call at the ongoing 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos […]

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